Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-23 Thread gharris999
Moffedille;584709 Wrote: Unless gharris999 has fixed the aforementioned repository problem, you probably won't be able to install the beta version. Or, you will be able to install it, but not to configure and use it, because the plugin page will constantly be saying that there's an updated

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-21 Thread epoch1970
ASenna04;583929 Wrote: OK, help me here. What did I do wrong? Find attached the log of my Terminal actions to setup SvrPowerControl. I have Mac Mini on OS X 10.6.4 and Squeeze Server 7.4.1 I control the Squeezeserver with iPeng and I have a Touch, a Boom and a SB3. Thanks in advance

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-20 Thread danco
ASenna04;583929 Wrote: OK, help me here. What did I do wrong? Find attached the log of my Terminal actions to setup SvrPowerControl. Did you in fact do anything wrong? Or did the plugin do anything wrong? It may be that trying to make a plugin that works across different operating systems

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-19 Thread ASenna04
OK, help me here. What did I do wrong? Find attached the log of my Terminal actions to setup SvrPowerControl. I have Mac Mini on OS X 10.6.4 and Squeeze Server 7.4.1 I control the Squeezeserver with iPeng and I have a Touch, a Boom and a SB3. Thanks in advance for your help. ASenna04

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-19 Thread gharris999
ASenna04;583929 Wrote: OK, help me here. What did I do wrong? Find attached the log of my Terminal actions to setup SvrPowerControl. I have Mac Mini on OS X 10.6.4 and Squeeze Server 7.4.1 I control the Squeezeserver with iPeng and I have a Touch, a Boom and a SB3. Thanks in advance

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-19 Thread ASenna04
gharris999;583931 Wrote: Sorry, I can't look at this right away. I'm still playing catch-up. I'll try to look through this, this evening. This evening is fine. Thanks. Imtihaz -- ASenna04 ASenna04's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-19 Thread gharris999
ASenna04;583946 Wrote: This evening is fine. Thanks. Imtihaz Sorry, not this evening either. Just too tired to think. I may have some time tomorrow evening. -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-06 Thread varunaX
hey gharris, can you help me better understand the wake 5 mins before an alarm feature. on my laptop when i close the screen the laptop sleeps. i have the option to wwake the computer before an alarm, but its not waking the computer. is there something im missing? i have the svpowertool.exe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-06 Thread gharris999
varunaX;581155 Wrote: hey gharris, can you help me better understand the wake 5 mins before an alarm feature. on my laptop when i close the screen the laptop sleeps. i have the option to wwake the computer before an alarm, but its not waking the computer. is there something im missing? i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-06 Thread varunaX
Thanks. I do have win7 so ill try it when i get home -- varunaX varunaX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40697 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-05 Thread Moffedille
..ok, maybe the repo-problem is the source for one of my current frustrations, with the plugin tab seemingly stuck in a sort of endless restart-mode? OT: Gordon, may I ask what kind (make/size) of sailboat you've got? -- Moffedille

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-05 Thread gharris999
Moffedille;580862 Wrote: ..ok, maybe the repo-problem is the source for one of my current frustrations, with the plugin tab seemingly stuck in a sort of endless restart-mode? OT: Gordon, may I ask what kind (make/size) of sailboat you've got? Not sure about the tab getting stuck. It could

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-05 Thread Moffedille
gharris999;580879 Wrote: Not sure about the tab getting stuck. It could be. Maybe try removing my repo from the list of manually installed 3rd party repos? You might have to stop SBS and manually remove the reference from a prefs file. Re ot/sailboat: It's a Hallberg-Rassy 49' (Swedish

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-03 Thread wonder boy
Don't know if it's just me but I couldn't get the beta version repo to install as listed at the beginning of this thread, is it still available? Installed the non beta alternative on SBS 7.5.1 hopefully will be ok -- wonder boy Squeezebox ex-fan boy and proud... 2x Boom 1x SB3 Just

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-03 Thread gharris999
No, it's not just you. I screwed up the repo just before I left for Croatia in June and it's been broken ever since. I (finally) get back to New Mexico at the end of the week and I'll be able to address it then. In the mean time, I have a sail boat to put to bed for the season and this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-10-03 Thread wonder boy
Thank you Gordon, I don't quite know what to say...err perhaps a good close manicure might be in order before you begin repairs? -- wonder boy Squeezebox ex-fan boy and proud... 2x Boom 1x SB3 Just ordered SB Radio...do I need help…I WISHED I HADN’T!!!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-27 Thread wenkman
Hi there! Thanks for this fantastic plugin! But I have a question: in Squeezeplay run under WinXP I don't have an icon in front if Server Power Control in my main menu? I downloaded the last version just a few days ago. Do I need to put the icon myself somewhere so Squeezeplay / Server get it?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-15 Thread danco
Should the custom commands work on the Radio? I have gone to the Server Power Control item on my Home Page, and selected a command. SPC reports that it will run the command in 15 seconds, and then reports that it has run the command. But the command is not actually run on my Mac. I take it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-07 Thread gharris999
Philip Meyer;567071 Wrote: I reported a problem using Extension Downloader to install this plugin. The problem is the version numbering doesn't match between the repository xml file and the plugin that is downloaded. I downloaded the plugin manually and installed manually instead. Phill:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Phill: I'll take a look at this. I probably screwed up the XML file with my scripts that added PostScan. Where did you report this problem? I missed your report. New post in this forum, around the end of July. I thought you were away; wasn't expecting you to respond for a while! Phil

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-07 Thread shawje
All working well. Thanks for your help Danco and Phil and thanks for the plugin Gordon. -- shawje shawje's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37017 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-06 Thread Phil Meyer
I reported a problem using Extension Downloader to install this plugin. The problem is the version numbering doesn't match between the repository xml file and the plugin that is downloaded. I downloaded the plugin manually and installed manually instead.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-06 Thread shawje
Philip Meyer;567071 Wrote: I reported a problem using Extension Downloader to install this plugin. The problem is the version numbering doesn't match between the repository xml file and the plugin that is downloaded. I downloaded the plugin manually and installed manually instead. Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Thanks Philip - I'm glad it's not me being stupid. I'll have a go at doing the same. Any idea where I can find an idiot's guide to manually installing the plugin on a Mac? Should be the same on any OS. 1. Uninstall any automatically installed SrvPowerControl plugin. 2. Find the download url

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-05 Thread danco
shawje;566750 Wrote: Thanks Danco. I'm running v20090615.00 of the plugin and my settings screen has On-WakeUpActions and then Restore Default Settings as the last two items on the settings page. No sign of Custom Commands. Any ideas? That's an old version of the plugin. I am using

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-05 Thread shawje
danco;566814 Wrote: That's an old version of the plugin. I am using v20100115.005818. Unless there is some reason (such as the version of Squeezebox Server that you use) not to upgrade, I suggest you do so. That has the custom commands, I believe they were introduced at my request some time

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-05 Thread danco
Sorry, I've never run into this problem and have no idea why the plugin isn't downloading properly. I assume you did click Apply. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-04 Thread shawje
Update - It's preventing sleep beautifully. Unfortunately it's not letting the mac go back to sleep when it becomes inactive. I have two scripts - jigstart.sh which is called when not idle and which starts jiggler. Jigstop.sh stops jiggler and is used as the hibernate command - so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-04 Thread gharris999
shawje;566478 Wrote: Update - It's preventing sleep beautifully. Unfortunately it's not letting the mac go back to sleep when it becomes inactive. I have two scripts - jigstart.sh which is called when not idle and which starts jiggler. Jigstop.sh stops jiggler and is used as the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-04 Thread shawje
gharris999;566480 Wrote: As I've posted above, I'm sitting on a sailboat in the Adriatic, seven time zones away from my squeezeboxes and servers. I'd like to be able to help here, but my brain is too addled from too much sun, seafood and vino. I'll try to put some serious effort into

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-04 Thread danco
Right at the very bottom of the the SvrPowerControl settings is a section called Custom Commands, offering four spaces for commands and their labels. Create a script, and put the path to it in the right hand box, and give it a name in the left hand box. Then it will appear in the menu. In the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-04 Thread shawje
danco;566495 Wrote: Right at the very bottom of the the SvrPowerControl settings is a section called Custom Commands, offering four spaces for commands and their labels. Create a script, and put the path to it in the right hand box, and give it a name in the left hand box. Then it will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-03 Thread danco
It's a touch confusing, as the on-idle and not-idle interfaces are different. For a not-idle script, you give the full path to the script in the obvious place. For an on-idle script, you go to the Custom Commands at the bottom, give a name to the command and the full path to the script you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-03 Thread shawje
danco;566245 Wrote: It's a touch confusing, as the on-idle and not-idle interfaces are different. For a not-idle script, you give the full path to the script in the obvious place. For an on-idle script, you go to the Custom Commands at the bottom, give a name to the command and the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-08-02 Thread shawje
Danco / Gordon I'm looking to prevent my Mac Mini sleeping when using squeezebox. I think I know how to do it - using Danco's method of running Jiggler when Srvpowerctrl sees NotIdle (although I haven't yet tried getting the scripts working in the correct directories and I'm new to Macs). My

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-24 Thread danco
Look through the thread to find the answer. There are a couple of free programs, Caffeine and Jiggler, that stop a Mac from sleeping when activated. You can write a shell script to run either of these, and set up SvrPowerControl to run the script when the SB is not idle. It's your choice which

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-24 Thread gharris999
Yes, the beta version of SrvrPowerCtrl will do what you want it to. Make sure it's the latest beta version (from last January, I think) that you have installed. But getting this to work is going to require some extra effort on your part. SrvrPowerCtrl is really all about putting the server

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-23 Thread jonathan.ibell
Hey there Not sure whether I should be posting this in the beginners' forum, but... I have a Duet and am running a Mac Mini as the server; I'm having problems with the computer going into standby while listening to music. I don't want to have to put the sleep setting on the Mac so far up as I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-21 Thread robroe
Hi, Hope you enjoyed your sailing! I don't suppose you've managed to take a look at the possible LazySearch conflict? Thanks Rob gharris999;537178 Wrote: Got it. But the log only seems to reflect the start of SBS and a Lazifacation called by the LazySearch plugin. It doesn't seem to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-21 Thread gharris999
robroe;563275 Wrote: Hi, Hope you enjoyed your sailing! I don't suppose you've managed to take a look at the possible LazySearch conflict? Thanks Rob My summer of sailing isn't even remotely over yet. I don't head back until October 7th. Currently, I'm off the island of Lastovo in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-21 Thread mvordeme
Envy! -- mvordeme 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/mvordeme) | scaleo home server 2105 | squeezebox server 7.5.0 - r30464 | server power control 20100115.005818 | squeezebox boom duet | rotel rsp-1066 | rotel rmb-100 | phonar p-5

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-13 Thread Stone Free
gharris999;553230 Wrote: Unfortunately, I have no experience with QNAP devices. Anyway, there are a couple of different ways you can try to go about this. If the QNAP allows you root access via ssh to it's operating system, then you can use PuTTY WinSCP to do some spelunking. You'll

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-13 Thread Tony T
gharris999;561204 Wrote: Exactly. You could use SrvrPowerCtrl's current not idle support to accomplish the same thing, but I intend to remove this feature in the next version. I'll move that functionality to the ReallyPreventStandby plugin when I rework it to support all operating systems.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-12 Thread gharris999
Tony T;560297 Wrote: Never mind, found the answer in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...postcount=1352 I can use the CLI to test if any of my players are in mode: 'play', and if so, I'll run Jiggler to keep my server from sleeping. I can do this with a bash script run every 25 minutes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-07 Thread Tony T
This might have been answered in one of the 140 pages in this thread :) , but can someone tell me how I can determine if a stream is playing? (not if the server is running). -- Tony T Tony #63743; SBTouch #9834; SBRadio #9836;

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-07-07 Thread Tony T
Tony T;560186 Wrote: This might have been answered in one of the 140 pages in this thread :) , but can someone tell me how I can determine if a stream is playing? (not if the server is running). Never mind, found the answer in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...postcount=1352 I can use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-06-29 Thread robroe
gharris999;537197 Wrote: I can't look at this for the next couple of days. But I'll try to see what I can figure out on Tuesday. Hi, I have this same issue too. Looks as though I have the lazification bits as well so maybe it is a conflict there? Any work on this would be greatly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-06-29 Thread gharris999
Sorry. I'm scrambling to get out of town and onto a sailboat in the Adriatic. I won't have time to look at this any time soon. -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-06-29 Thread robroe
Pah! Where are your priorities?! Do you work for BP by any chance? ;) It would be great if it got fixed one day. Thanks. -- robroe robroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14248 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-06-06 Thread Stone Free
How do I go about getting this to work on a QNAP 219P. I have installed SUDO via Itsy package manager, but I have no idea what I'm meant to put in the SUDOERS file. I've also no idea how to go about installing PM-Utils on the QNAP because it doesn't seem to be installable via Itsy. -- Stone

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-06-06 Thread gharris999
Stone Free;553227 Wrote: How do I go about getting this to work on a QNAP 219P. I have installed SUDO via Itsy package manager, but I have no idea what I'm meant to put in the SUDOERS file. I've also no idea how to go about installing PM-Utils on the QNAP because it doesn't seem to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-22 Thread mvordeme
Currently there is no interaction at all between SPC and LightsOut. Apart from the things LightsOut is monitoring anyway like daily backups and hard disk activity, I have set it to monitor network activity of more than 8 KB/s. I have configured a timeout value of 20 minutes, so 20 minutes after I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-19 Thread gharris999
mvordeme;537248 Wrote: Took me some time because the old version was working so well and I didn't want to break it. I am now using ServerPowerControl solely for switching the players over to mysqueezebox.com. LightsOut 1.0 comes with network load monitoring. I set the threshold to 8 KB/s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread Biermichel
Did activate debugging on settings advanced logging with saving the setting, but after rebooting it's set back to information. Here comes the log, don't think it helps you: [10-04-18 17:33:29.0629] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.0, r30464, Thu Apr 1 05:51:56 PDT 2010) perl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread gharris999
Biermichel;537081 Wrote: Did activate debugging on settings advanced logging with saving the setting, but after rebooting it's set back to information. Here comes the log, don't think it helps you: [10-04-18 17:33:29.0629] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.0, r30464, Thu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread Biermichel
Ah, thanks a lot. You've got e-mail with my logs (too long for posting or pm'ing). -- Biermichel Biermichel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21783 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread gharris999
Biermichel;537170 Wrote: Ah, thanks a lot. You've got e-mail with my logs (too long for posting or pm'ing). Got it. But the log only seems to reflect the start of SBS and a Lazifacation called by the LazySearch plugin. It doesn't seem to contain any of the log messages I would expect to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread Biermichel
Send you a few logs more with two or tree manual shutdowns. Yes, I did a manual shutdown, but I could't find anything in the logs. You can see that above the main log: [10-04-18 21:00:17.1566] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.0, r30464, Thu Apr 1 05:51:56 PDT 2010) I shut

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread gharris999
Biermichel;537186 Wrote: Send you a few logs more with two or tree manual shutdowns. Yes, I did a manual shutdown, but I could't find anything in the logs. You can see that above the main log: [10-04-18 21:00:17.1566] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.0, r30464, Thu Apr 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread gharris999
Biermichel;537186 Wrote: Send you a few logs more with two or tree manual shutdowns. Yes, I did a manual shutdown, but I could't find anything in the logs. You can see that above the main log: [10-04-18 21:00:17.1566] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.0, r30464, Thu Apr 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread Biermichel
It's okay. Thank you for engagement. At the moment I'm using a work around by shutting the system down by the link on web gui placed on my desktop. It works fine. -- Biermichel Biermichel's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-18 Thread mvordeme
mvordeme;504852 Wrote: I am not sure how many people are interested in this It looks like (the trial and licensed versions of) 'Lights Out 1.0' (http://addins.home-server-blog.de/verwaltung/lightsout/#en) for Windows Home Server can now monitor various sources to keep the server from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-17 Thread gharris999
Biermichel;535968 Wrote: Hi, got a problem by external shutdown. My SBs shall go to mySB.com, but they only do if I stop the SqueezeboxServer manually. By normal system shutdown that doesn't work. OS: Windwos XP, actual SB-Server 7.5.0 I like your plugin, great work! Well, this is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-16 Thread Biermichel
Hi, got a problem by external shutdown. My SBs shall go to mySB.com, but they only do if I stop the SqueezeboxServer manually. By normal system shutdown that doesn't work. OS: Windwos XP, actual SB-Server 7.5.0 I like your plugin, great work! -- Biermichel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-11 Thread MrRalph
Tried to suspend the server on 7.5 Ubuntu. Followed all the instructions, however, trying to suspend the server from a prompt, results in promping me for the squeezeboxserver password. Any tips to fix this? -- MrRalph

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-11 Thread gharris999
MrRalph;533221 Wrote: My mistake, the BETA works like a charm :-) With the change from SC 7.3.x to SBS 7.4 and above, the linux account name that the squeeze service runs under changed from squeezecenter to squeezeboxserver. The setup script for the BETA version of SrvrPowerCtrl attempts to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-04-02 Thread Chris82
gharris999;528991 Wrote: I really should write some kind of windows utility that monitors the system, listening for PM initiated sleep, and sends SrvrPowerCtrl a cli request to set alarms. Not sure when I'll get the time to do this, though. Sure, I'm very thankful for the solution you're

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-30 Thread epoch1970
These guys have studied exactly what I have in mind: An Empirical Study of the Potential for Context-Aware Power Management [ https://www.scss.tcd.ie:453/publications/tech-reports/reports.07/TCD-CS-2007-52.pdf ] - There's a few more in google scholar. They are using a bayesian classifier to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-29 Thread Chris82
Hi, after some playing around with my new mediacenter I gave another try to the wake-up feature in SvrPowerControl under Win 7 X64 but what can I say, same issue as before: In an artficial situation where I try to use the powertool from the command line with the wake-up feature, everything

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-29 Thread jmang
Tried installing beta version of SvrPowerControl using Extension Downloader as suggested in the quoted post. My target system is Squeezebox Server 7.4.2 running on OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) on a Late 2009 Mac Mini with Intel dual-core CPU @ 2GHz and 4 MB RAM. gharris999;308728 Wrote: Note for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-29 Thread Chris82
Chris82;528706 Wrote: I don't quite understand that problem since in my own tests, the machine returns both from S3 and S4 state to the preset time. Hi again, I think I found the fundamental misunderstanding I had. Is it true that the SCpowertool is only triggered if the server is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-29 Thread mvordeme
That is correct. The tool is invoked from the plug-in. You must configure the plug-in such that it prevents Windows from hibernating the server as long as SBS is playing any music and to set all necessary alarms before allowing the server to go to sleep. -- mvordeme 'last.fm'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-29 Thread gharris999
Chris82;528943 Wrote: Hi again, I think I found the fundamental misunderstanding I had. Is it true that the SCpowertool is only triggered if the server is suspended / hibernated by the plugin itself, let's say after a sleep timer is over or idle time of attached players has been

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-27 Thread jmang
Hi, I've gone through this and other threads looking for a solution to the problem of my Mac Mini going to sleep during Squeezebox Server's playing music. I suspect the wisdom needed to solve this is here---somewhere---but it seems scattered through numerous messages I haven't the time or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-27 Thread gharris999
jmang;528432 Wrote: Hi, I've gone through this and other threads looking for a solution to the problem of my Mac Mini going to sleep during Squeezebox Server's playing music. I suspect the wisdom needed to solve this is here---somewhere---but it seems scattered through numerous messages

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-27 Thread danco
gharris999;528437 Wrote: In terms of keeping your server awake while SBS is playing music: yes, the answer is in this thread. Search this thread for the keyword 'caffeine' to see what at least one user has come up with. Yes, Caffeine or Jiggler. Much the same functionality, differ

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-16 Thread colincliff
gharris999;525427 Wrote: pm-utils (along with almost everything else) logs all of its (very verbose) messages to /var/log/messages. Look at the message times and specifically, look for a gap in time. That will indicate when the system was asleep. Again, I'm much more familiar with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-16 Thread gharris999
colincliff;525527 Wrote: Hi, thanks for this, my pm-suspend.log shows no problems, only they system waking up after a second or so. It does this even when there is no ethernet connection, so it seems to be a problem with the ubuntu installation. interestingly(!) i can hibernate fine,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-16 Thread epoch1970
Look for a different version of the linux kernel when fishing for an alternative live-cd to test with. For example, choose a previous Ubuntu release (7.0, 8.0), or the next beta. Perhaps you can be lucky. With your current OS: http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram was a valuable resource for me when I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-15 Thread colincliff
still getting some funny behaviour. The system seems to go to sleep fine now, but after a few seconds it is resuming even when squeezeboxes are off is there any way to find out what event is waking the system in ubuntu? either the ip address which sent the magic packet or anyting like that? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-15 Thread gharris999
colincliff;525198 Wrote: still getting some funny behaviour. The system seems to go to sleep fine now, but after a few seconds it is resuming even when squeezeboxes are off is there any way to find out what event is waking the system in ubuntu? either the ip address which sent the magic

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-08 Thread mvordeme
colincliff;522872 Wrote: Thanks for the reply. There must be something else stopping its sleeping after torrent downloads, i'll do some more experimentsIt used to depend on various settings, so maybe in your case it doesn't work. I think you may need to configure a not-idle command. You

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-08 Thread epoch1970
colincliff;522872 Wrote: Thanks for the reply. There must be something else stopping its sleeping after torrent downloads, i'll do some more experiments could it be that after the download you are seeding on the torrent, and downloaders connect to your machine in turn ? -- epoch1970

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread colincliff
not sure if this is the right place to post, but i've had a quick look through the thread and not seen this listed before. I have installed this plugin and and trying to go through the instructions for finishing the installation Ubuntu. when I try the command: 'sudo chmod a+x

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread gharris999
colincliff;522729 Wrote: not sure if this is the right place to post, but i've had a quick look through the thread and not seen this listed before. I have installed this plugin and and trying to go through the instructions for finishing the installation Ubuntu. when I try the command:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread colincliff
Thanks for that. I've got it all running now. Brilliant plugin! One further question about the plugins' behaviour. My server runs on a box which also has a torrent client on there. My torrent client is set to not allow the system to sleep when it is downloading to make sure it can finish. This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread mvordeme
As far as I can see it does. If the server does not shut down immediately, it starts the grace interval again issuing the not-idle command. The shut-down command will be submitted periodically. I actually don't like this to happen, but in your case, it is probably going to help. -- mvordeme

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread colincliff
Thanks for the reply. There must be something else stopping its sleeping after torrent downloads, i'll do some more experiments -- colincliff colincliff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36572

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-05 Thread gharris999
colincliff;522866 Wrote: Thanks for that. I've got it all running now. Brilliant plugin! One further question about the plugins' behaviour. My server runs on a box which also has a torrent client on there. My torrent client is set to not allow the system to sleep when it is downloading to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-04 Thread epoch1970
Meh. So I moved all my CLI queries to Json, yet today I had another occurrence of players not completely disconnecting from mySB... Changed my code to give the local status priority, and also in case a player is declared by the SBS server on both sides (mySB, SC) for more than a few minutes, I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-04 Thread AndreE
I had not exactly the same issue, but similar behavior – this was due to Auto recognition in the network – my player just connected to the Server immediately when it was up. – had to deactivate it in the server settings – maybe it is the same? -- AndreE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-03 Thread AndreE
it looks like I did install it from released version my suggestion would be to update the first post(s) where the link was presented to the repository (which seams to be obsolete) will try to change it later and see how it works how I can deactivate installed version if it does not show me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-03 Thread gharris999
AndreE;522176 Wrote: it looks like I did install it from released version my suggestion would be to update the first post(s) where the link was presented to the repository (which seams to be obsolete) will try to change it later and see how it works how I can deactivate installed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-03 Thread AndreE
if you would decide to go for clean-up - I would suggest to start a new thread and block this one - it is already too big to read and follow Of course you have all rights to decide, I gust may suggest -- AndreE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-02 Thread AndreE
it looks like the plug-in cannot start due to some errors this is the extract from the log Code: [10-03-02 19:25:41.9509] main::init (320) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.4.2, r30215, Fri Feb 19 16:22:31 MST 2010) perl 5.01 [10-03-02 19:25:45.9088]

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-02 Thread AndreE
... it looks like plug-in works fine... server just stopped instantly system.log has::: sudo: squeezeboxserver : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/pm-suspend meaning... it was a plug-in... good news: it works, bad news ... something is still wrong :-) -- AndreE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-02 Thread gharris999
AndreE;522001 Wrote: ... it looks like plug-in works fine... server just stopped instantly system.log has::: sudo: squeezeboxserver : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/pm-suspend meaning... it was a plug-in... good news: it works, bad news ... something is still

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-01 Thread sto
sto;519457 Wrote: an easier interim solution would be the ability to have the option for SvrPowerControl to do nothing when it sees SBS is idle and just leverage the run external script functionality to show when a power manager util when it's busy I may be pushing my luck here but in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-01 Thread gharris999
mec02;521165 Wrote: Hi I'm testing SPC because i need to check if one Squeezebox is playing. So i testet unter Idle Player Monitor: the option Optional action to take while not idle: with this commandline: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C time /t D:\squeeze.txt The problem is that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2010-03-01 Thread gharris999
lunkan;519296 Wrote: How to use sync - (unsync) in SCCLITool? I had no problems with sync players. Try this: Code: @echo off set sbs_ip=192.168.0.123 set sbs_port=9090 set master_mac=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff set slave_mac=ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa rem Sync:

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